Situation: New-to-them iMac, freshly upgraded to Monterey. They’re new to Macs, so have never got any of the artist-formerly-known-as-iWork apps for it. How can they purchase it? The App Store just shows the latest versions which require Ventura, and of course it’s not in their purchase history because they never purchased it. They do have iOS versions, but not these.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ian
On 27 Dec 2022 at 18:21:12 GMT, "jbrennand" <brennand@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 26/12/2022 21:27, Ian McCall wrote:
Situation: New-to-them iMac, freshly upgraded to Monterey. They’re new to >>> Macs, so have never got any of the artist-formerly-known-as-iWork apps for >>> it. How can they purchase it? The App Store just shows the latest versions >>> which require Ventura, and of course it’s not in their purchase history >>> because they never purchased it. They do have iOS versions, but not these. >>>
Any ideas?
iWork 09 ~£10-20 on eBay :-)
That won't run under Monterey, will it?
On 26/12/2022 21:27, Ian McCall wrote:
Situation: New-to-them iMac, freshly upgraded to Monterey. They’re new to >> Macs, so have never got any of the artist-formerly-known-as-iWork apps for >> it. How can they purchase it? The App Store just shows the latest versions >> which require Ventura, and of course it’s not in their purchase history
because they never purchased it. They do have iOS versions, but not these. >>
Any ideas?
iWork 09 ~£10-20 on eBay :-)
Situation: New-to-them iMac, freshly upgraded to Monterey. They’re new to Macs, so have never got any of the artist-formerly-known-as-iWork apps for it. How can they purchase it? The App Store just shows the latest versions which require Ventura, and of course it’s not in their purchase history because they never purchased it. They do have iOS versions, but not these.
Any ideas?
On 26/12/2022 21:27, Ian McCall wrote:
Situation: New-to-them iMac, freshly upgraded to Monterey. They’re new to Macs, so have never got any of the artist-formerly-known-as-iWork apps for it. How can they purchase it? The App Store just shows the latest versions which require Ventura, and of course it’s not in their purchase history because they never purchased it. They do have iOS versions, but not these.
Any ideas?
Why not just upgrade them to Ventura?
Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
On 26/12/2022 21:27, Ian McCall wrote:
Situation: New-to-them iMac, freshly upgraded to Monterey. They’re new to
Macs, so have never got any of the artist-formerly-known-as-iWork apps for
it. How can they purchase it? The App Store just shows the latest versions
which require Ventura, and of course it’s not in their purchase history because they never purchased it. They do have iOS versions, but not these.
Any ideas?
Why not just upgrade them to Ventura?
I'd guess the hardware is too old to run Ventura?
Are we actually talking about iWork '09, or do you mean the current Pages/Numbers/Keynote/etc?
When I got a 2013 MBP it came with them preinstalled. I wonder if there's a route by which you can install the factory OS image (on mine it was Mavericks) which maybe comes with the apps. And then upgrade to Monterey (possibly via intermediate OSes) and see if they stick around. Signing into the appstore may help.
Alternatively, a shortcut would be to install the factory OS, login to the app store and do any available updates from there. Then boot back into Monterey and see if they now show in your appstore 'purchases'.
Another option might be to use OCLP to boot Ventura (on external storage perhaps), 'purchase' the apps, and then boot back into Monterey. It might
be possible to transfer them across from the Ventura image if the appstore won't do it.
Are we actually talking about iWork '09, or do you mean the current Pages/Numbers/Keynote/etc?
iWork '09 runs on Mojave but nothing later.
If anyone can find a way of making it run on later versions, please let me know as iWork '09 is (for my needs) far superior to the current version.
On 28 Dec 2022, Theo wrote
(in article <nxk*CPW6y@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>):
Are we actually talking about iWork '09, or do you mean the current
Pages/Numbers/Keynote/etc?
iWork '09 runs on Mojave but nothing later.
If anyone can find a way of making it run on later versions, please let me know as iWork '09 is (for my needs) far superior to the current version.
If anyone can find a way of making it run on later versions, please let me know as iWork '09 is (for my needs) far superior to the current version.
https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive only takes iWork to
Mojave too, unllike the other apps, so I suspect missing OS frameworks
mean that after that you'll need a VM.
If anyone can find a way of making it run on later versions, please let me
know as iWork '09 is (for my needs) far superior to the current version.
https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive only takes iWork to
Mojave too, unllike the other apps, so I suspect missing OS frameworks
mean that after that you'll need a VM.
For reasons no one seems to fully understand, VMs don't work either.
For reasons no one seems to fully understand, VMs don't work either.
there's no reason why it wouldn't if the vm runs an earlier system,
ideally one from a decade ago, when iwork '09 was current. that's not
an option on apple silicon, but can work on intel.
For reasons no one seems to fully understand, VMs don't work either.
there's no reason why it wouldn't if the vm runs an earlier system,
ideally one from a decade ago, when iwork '09 was current. that's not
an option on apple silicon, but can work on intel.
Have you tried it?
I have. It doesn't work.
there's no reason why it wouldn't if the vm runs an earlier system, ideally one from a decade ago, when iwork '09 was current. that's not
an option on apple silicon, but can work on intel.
Have you tried it?
which part? virtualizing mac os or using iwork '09 in a vm?
i've used various versions of mac os in a vm without issue. i haven't
tried iwork '09, however.
if all you want to do is use iwork '09, an older version of mac os
would be a better choice, given how old iwork '09 is. apple states that
it requires 10.4.11 or 10.5.6 or later.
I have. It doesn't work.
what problems did you encounter?
i've used various versions of mac os in a vm without issue. i haven't
tried iwork '09, however.
Me too. There are no problems with other applications it's just iWork '09 which won't work.
what problems did you encounter?
The programs load okay, but the window is blank. No text appears when I type, no tables appear in Numbers. I've tried this with various emulators, and other respected names on this newsgroup have had the same problem.
i've used various versions of mac os in a vm without issue. i haven't tried iwork '09, however.
Me too. There are no problems with other applications Âit's just iWork '09 which won't work.
...
what problems did you encounter?
The programs load okay, but the window is blank. No text appears when I type,
no tables appear in Numbers. I've tried this with various emulators, and other respected names on this newsgroup have had the same problem.
that's bizarre. vms do not fully support the gpu and that's probably
why, except that nothing iwork does is graphics intensive, making it surprising that would be the cause.
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